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Asus, one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics businesses, confirmed last week that it is planning to launch ebook by the end of this year.

Asus ebook will about to start a new revolutionize way on how an ebook reader should be. Not only it will be the cheapest digital reader to be sold in the market but Asus claims its new ebook reader will be smarter and more versatile that any current available reader in the market today.

According to Jerry Shen, the company’s president, they plan to unveil the device before the end of the year -with different models.

This futuristic ebook reader has a hinged spine, like a printed book. It’s like you are just reading a normal book, using the touchscreen to turn on the pages. It has also a feature to browse the web while seeing the current text on screen.

Asus screens boast a full color unlike the current ebook readers that have monochrome screens only.

And  lastly, you can also make a cheap phone calls over the internet using this device  because it has a “speaker, a webcam and a mic for Skype”.

Facebook mobile users is now at 65 million.  This is almost one-third of the total population of Facebook which is around 200 million already.

The recent growth is due to the mobile service which Facebook started in 2006. Facebook’s mobile web site m.facebook.com works on any mobile browser. It has  x.facebook.com also which is designed specifically for touch screen phones like Android, Palm, iPhone and Nokia.

Facebook introduced a new feature called ‘Facebook Connect’. It is a system wherein a developer can integrate with Facebook for their own services. This will also provide the users a single log-ins for all Facebook services.

Mobile access is becoming increasingly important for Facebook in order to expand globally. Currently, the best mobile interfaces are found on iPhone and Blackberry. Facebook recently launch Facebook for iPhone 3.0 and people have been very pleased with the new features.

Nokia is also gearing on the same direction.  Nokia just announced a new handset, the N900, which uses a Linux-based operating system called “Maemo.”  This new gadget will have a Facebook application that allows users to update their location with their status.

Google’s Gmail service was inaccessible last Tuesday in a severe outage that  affected a majority of users  who are relying on Google’s popular free e-mail service.

Google explained that  Tuesday’s widespread outage occurred when the company took some servers offline to perform their scheduled routine maintenance. This  caused  its remaining routers to become overloaded with traffic.

Ben Treynor, a Google vice president of engineering apologized on their blog ““Thus, right up front, I’d like to apologize to all of you — today’s outage was a Big Deal, and we’re treating it as such,”. He wrote” We’ve turned our full attention to helping ensure this kind of event doesn’t happen again. Some of the actions are straightforward and are already done — for example, increasing request router capacity well beyond peak demand to provide headroom”.

Twitter users were trading updates about Gmail’s problems and became the a top trending topic on that day.

Google reported Tuesday afternoon that it fixed the problem.

A relatively new mild virus is spreading around by infecting programs/software that were developed in Delphi.  According to anti-virus vendor BitDefender, the virus “spreads by infecting systems that have the Delphi compiler from version 4  up to 7.0 installed.”

Sophos, the company that first discovered the virus “W32/Induc-A”  stated that this virus “searches computers for installations of Delphi, then attempts to temporarily modify SysConst.pas, and compiles this to infect SysConst.dcu. The original SysConst.dcu can be restored from the backup made by the virus in SysConst.bak.”

Michael Swindell, VP of products at Embarcadero, responded when he learned about the virus affecting Delphi IDEs:

This is just another way for a virus to infect executable code. It makes it sound like Delphi or IDEs are now “vulnerable,” but they are no more or less vulnerable than any other of the thousands of EXEs and DLLs on every developers machine, and no more or less than they have been since viruses and trojans were first created. This is a clever trick, but it’s nothing to be more worried about than all of the other ways your dev machine can be attacked. Use virus scanners and keep them up to date.” http://sdtimes.com/blog/1508

Instructions for Removing the Virus:

By default, most anti-virus software do not scan .DCU (delphi compiled unit) and .pas (pascal unit) file extensions, so you need to turn on the option to scan all file extensions and do a full system scan. If the anti-virus detected the virus, replace the .dcu and .pas from a clean backup files.

It’s also a must to recompile all software from a cleaned Delphi and replaced the infected compiled executables.

Senior C# Programmers

• At least 3 years recent C# development and RDBMS experience
• MCAD or MCSD and Project management is desirable

We’re a Canadian consulting firm with a branch office in Metro Manila that requires Senior C# Programmers.

Each individual must have excellent written and verbal English communication skills and be able to work with minimum supervision and report to our Manila representative.

Please forwarded CV’s to delphinoy@yahoo.com

Most of you are probably wondering why there’s not much update here within the last 2 months. This is because of some feedbacks from various colleagues which I received and they want the jobs category to be separated totally from the personal blog and news. With the released of the new version WordPress, I intend to re-organize and relaunch the website.

Watch out for a more organized, less cluttered, easier to navigate and more importantly ,a user friendly layout of Delphinoy.

• Responsible for providing consistent high quality customer service and support of the client’s Global applications.
• Resolves issues in a timely and efficient manner, through analysis and problem solving on a “first call” basis.

Job Requirement

• With 1 to 3 years prior technology Help Desk experience in a problem-solving capacity (local applications, web applications, hardware troubleshooting and others).
• With 1 to 3 years experience with incident management tools.
• Good process methodology experience
• Excellent verbal, written, communication skills.
• Must be able to speak and write fluent English with advanced grammar and composition skills
• Excellent Customer Service skills.
• Thoroughness in terms of following defined processes diligently and accurately.
• Drive and ability to see problems through to resolution
• Well-developed inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand new technology and applications.
• Willing to work in a shifting schedule and render overtime as necessary
• Able to work in fast paced, stressful environment

B&M Global Services Manila is a wholly owned subsidiary of Baker & McKenzie International B.V., the support services provider to Baker & McKenzie International which is a network of member law firms around the world. We are the exclusive Philippine-based shared services center of this global network of firms.

Our young, dynamic organization provides a variety of support services to more than 70 offices in 38 countries around the world. Our continued growth demands the expertise of professionals for our team. If you see yourself working as a part of a global organization, driven by a passion for excellence, then, we would like to hear from you.You may send your resume and other relevant application documents to naomi.trovela@bakernet.com or bmgsm.hr@bakernet.com.

Note: kindly inform Naomi that http://www.delphinoy.com/ referred you.

• This position works directly with different project and support team members in both on-site and virtual teams to provide solutions to the firm’s needs and responsibilities. Main functions include executing and maintaining operation jobs handled by the team, analyzing and translating business needs to technical requirements and designing a technical solution that will meet the requirements set forth and that will adhere to firm standards. Technical solution consists of development, testing, deployment, monitoring and support plans to ensure maximum customer satisfaction. Additional duties are ad hoc reports and tasks directed by the supervisor.

Job Requirement

• 1 year of experience with systems analysis
• Has knowledge in Transact-SQL
• Knowledge in Reporting Services is a plus
• Has background in Microsoft technologies
• Process-oriented thinking
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Team player.
• Flexible to changing business needs, easily adaptable to new situations and directions.

B&M Global Services Manila is a wholly owned subsidiary of Baker & McKenzie International B.V., the support services provider to Baker & McKenzie International which is a network of member law firms around the world. We are the exclusive Philippine-based shared services center of this global network of firms.

Our young, dynamic organization provides a variety of support services to more than 70 offices in 38 countries around the world. Our continued growth demands the expertise of professionals for our team. If you see yourself working as a part of a global organization, driven by a passion for excellence, then, we would like to hear from you.You may send your resume and other relevant application documents to naomi.trovela@bakernet.com or bmgsm.hr@bakernet.com.

Note: kindly inform Naomi that http://www.delphinoy.com/ referred you.

• This position provides database administration and programming services to the Global IP Practice Group for all existing and future Global IP applications.

Job Requirement

• Practical experience in database administration technology, data analysis and data transfer (within an IP environment), design, file structures, retrieval and access methods, capacity planning, data modeling, project implementation, and data replication.
• Strong knowledge and experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) through GUI, Command Line Interface (ISQL), Data Transformation Services (DTS), scripting, transactional replication, stored procedures, user functions, extended stored procedures, and triggers within MSSQL 2000, 2005.
• Strong development background with asp.net, vb.net, c#. Knowledge and experience with web services a plus.
• Experience with Visio, MS Access and Citrix would be a plus.
• Experience in three-tier architecture with SQL backend or service oriented architecture.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft web tools (Visual Interdev, Visual Studio, and Visual Source Safe) and MS-SQL Enterprise Manager are required.
• A solid understanding of system development methodology and object oriented design.
• A strong understanding of Configuration Management procedures around distributed teams.
• A strong understanding of WAN communications, imaging, and Microsoft Operating System and security; experience in migrating a database management system from a midrange computer platform to client/server is a plus.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

B&M Global Services Manila is a wholly owned subsidiary of Baker & McKenzie International B.V., the support services provider to Baker & McKenzie International which is a network of member law firms around the world. We are the exclusive Philippine-based shared services center of this global network of firms.

Our young, dynamic organization provides a variety of support services to more than 70 offices in 38 countries around the world. Our continued growth demands the expertise of professionals for our team. If you see yourself working as a part of a global organization, driven by a passion for excellence, then, we would like to hear from you.

You may send your resume and other relevant application documents to naomi.trovela@bakernet.com or bmgsm.hr@bakernet.com.

Note: kindly tell the company that you are applying for that you’ve found the job posted here at http://www.delphinoy.com/. thanks!

Samsung Electronics Phils. Mfg Corp (SEPHIL), is a manufacturer of
optical media solution based in Calamba Premier International Park,
Calamba City. A 2003-2006 Most Outstanding Exporter Hall of Fame
Awardee. SEPHIL is an OSHAS 18001, ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001
certified company.

To strengthen our SEPHIL TEAM, we want top notch talents and results
oriented individuals to join us:
• Graduate of BS Computer Engineering, Computer Science or
any 4 year IT course
• 3-4 years work experience in a manufacturing set up
• Relative work experience on the following fields:
SAP System Functional Support experience preferably in a
Mfg environment – CO module.
3-4 years experience in Visual Basic Application Development
1-2 years experience in Systems Analysis and Design
1-2 years experience in MS-SQL DB Administrator
SAP ABAP/4 programming experience is an advantage

We accommodate walk in applicants from Mondays to Fridays until 10 am.

Interested parties may also send their resume to

sephil.recruit@samsung.com or to g.salabsab@samsung.com.

Or fax at (049) 545-1144 loc 208
Or call 049-5451144 local 218 or 212 for more details.

contact person: look for Ms. Gracelyn Salabsab